By Raúl Rodríguez Cota
22 Sep 2023, 17:44 PM EDT
The Powerball prize has increased to $750 million. The cash option, if the winner prefers to collect it in a single payment, is $350.6 million dollars.
This is the seventh largest prize in US lottery history and the third largest Powerball prize.
The jackpot amount increased after no one matched the numbers drawn in Wednesday night’s drawing, where they could have won $675 million.
The numbers that were drawn on Wednesday were: 16, 27, 59, 62, 63 and the red Powerball was 23.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292,201,338.
The odds of winning the lowest prize available, which is $4 for hitting the red Powerball number, are 1 in 38.32.
On that occasion, a ticket from California won the $1.08 billion jackpot.
This was the largest Powerball prize anyone has won all year and was the third largest prize in the history of the lottery in the country.
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